Category: Interview
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Mella Shaw – interview: ‘All art is a form of activism. I use my practice to engage people with the emotion of environmental issues’
The artist talks about her award-winning work Sounding Line, which focuses on the overuse of marine sonar and its devastating effect on whales, and what she hopes it will achieve
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Gavin Jantjes – interview: ‘I want to be free from expectation’
The South African painter, printmaker and former curator talks about the pitfalls of expectation, diversifying Britain’s art scene and creating a truly visual art
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Dominique White – interview: ‘I do everything the wrong way’
Ahead of her Whitechapel Gallery commission, the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women talks about manufacturing, mythology and submerging work underwater
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Emma Stibbon – interview: ‘We need the science, the data, but art can reach us in a more emotional way’
Tackling issues of climate change and coastal erosion in both the local area and as far afield as the two Poles, Emma Stibbon’s drawings and installations serve as monuments to what may all-too-soon be gone
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Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir – interview: ‘I am inspired by the underwhelming’
Recycled jute coffee bags, plastic pizza and a heap of wet wipes – for Iceland’s Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Birgisdóttir takes a wry look at our consumerist society and the mixed messages we absorb subliminally
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Tony Cragg – interview: ‘There are many more things that do not exist than things that do exist’
In the gardens of Castle Howard, north Yorkshire, Tony Cragg talks about his different sculptural series and the juxtapositions, links and contrasts they bring to the stately home’s permanent collection, architecture and landscape
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Antony Gormley – interview: ‘What is made here is a repositioning of the relationship of body to ground’
Probably the UK’s best-known contemporary sculptor, Gormley has created a new ‘field’ of 100 life-size cast-iron versions of himself at the historic Houghton Hall in Norfolk, where he talked to us about the work
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Wayne Eager – interview: ‘In Central Australia, I was mesmerised by the bright light and colour in the wide, open landscape’
A three-month stay in Central Australia with his partner, the artist Marina Strocchi, turned into a 30-year sojourn. Eager talks about working with Indigenous people to further their art and witnessing a transformation in the art market’s view of Aboriginal…
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Alex Ely – interview: ‘Ultimately the success of any building is how well it’s used and how well it’s stewarded’
What is the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good? Mae Architects founder Alex Ely shares insights on the firm’s Stirling Prize-winning approach
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Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’
The artist talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections between Mauritius and the Isle of Wight and between colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood
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